In the Spring 2017 issue of Alabama Heritage magazine, historian Earl Tilford looks back on a time during the 1960s and 1970s when University of Alabama students reflected all the tensions and conflicts of their era concerning views of the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War.

Our cover story, written by Monica Tapper, highlights the unconventional and ambitious Mary Fenollas, who was also known as Sidney McCall, and became an author who channeled her life experiences into bestsellers.

Cartledge Blackwell III uncovers the history of the Protestant Orphan Asylum in Mobile. Constructed before the Civil War, the asylum is known today as Cotton Hall and is an important feature of Mobile’s architectural landscape.

In a photographic essay, Bob Wendorf and photographer Randall Connaughton give readers a peak at the careful restoration that has brought the Alabama Theatre back to the appearance of its heyday.

Popular departments include Southern Architecture & Preservation; Adventures in Genealogy; From the Archives; Alabama Governors; Nature Journal; Reading the Southern Past book reviews; and a new department by author Francis Robb, Behind the Image.

Alabama Heritage, celebrating 30 years of fine publishing, is co-published by the University of Alabama, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the Alabama Department of Archives and History. The quarterly magazine covers a variety of subjects related to Alabama history and culture, and has garnered numerous local, regional, and national awards over the years. Copies are available for purchase at the University of Alabama Supply Store, at Barnes & Nobles and Books-a-Millions throughout the state, and online at www.alabamaheritage.com. Readers can also follow the magazine on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+, and YouTube.